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Title: White-black contrast and desk
Post by: iLLucionist on Wed, 30 April 2014, 08:25:09

I am wondering if I have just some sort of OCD but anyway.. My desk is deep dark brown (easily mistaken for black). My HHKB Pro 2 is black (as is my Filco MJT 2 TKL), My LCD is black, my boxes are black, my mouse (G400s) is black with dark blue. So all in all, black with more black with some touches of black with the exception of some more black.

Now, I am planning to buy a HHKB Pro 2 Type-S and these beauties:

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/speakers/hs_series/hs5/?mode=model (http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/speakers/hs_series/hs5/?mode=model)

Also available in white:

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/speakers/hs_series/hs5_white/?mode=model (http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/speakers/hs_series/hs5_white/?mode=model)

The HHKB Pro 2 Type-S only comes in white, I quite like the Yamaha monitors in white, but black is also not far off.

So my question is: do you find it disturbing / ugly to match white with black? What are your opinions? Any other pics of set-ups?

Title: Re: White-black contrast and desk
Post by: CPTBadAss on Wed, 30 April 2014, 08:26:43

This thread is great for looking at people's setups: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33167.0.

I think you might be interested in LastPilot's desk in particular.

And I think white and black go nicely together.

Title: Re: White-black contrast and desk
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 01 May 2014, 01:30:24

I recently went from an off-white desk to a black desk, and have a white HHKB Pro 2.

I seem to prefer white keyboards.

I also seem to find the white keyboard on black desk nicer, however my white desk is a nicer (and newer) desk than the black one.

Why did I switch?  The black desk is noticeably larger than the white one.

Title: Re: White-black contrast and desk
Post by: iLLucionist on Thu, 01 May 2014, 06:41:29

Cool, thanks all. I went white on black (well, deep dark brown actually). Just posted my set up here:

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33167.msg1314323#msg1314323 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33167.msg1314323#msg1314323)